Luisangel Acuña survived his Winter Ball injury. The young Dishes the infielder was forced to quit the game last week after being shot in the forearm. A few days later, however, he was back to do damage in the lineup of Lara’s Cardenales.
Acuña was on base a total of five times Thursday night, including two extra base hits.
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He led off the game with a solo homer to dead center, lined a double to the gap in the fourth, drew two walks in his next two at-bats, then followed that up with a two-out single in the bottom of the 10th.
The 23-year-old then followed it up with another two-hit game on Friday.
He tripled and hit the little league home run in the fourth.
Then, after grounding out in the sixth, he came back in the bottom of the eighth and beat out an infield single to spark a tying rally.
Acuña grounded into a double play on the 10th, but still put together a strong sequence of play.
He is now hitting .268 with 10 extra-base hits, 13 RBIs, 17 walks, 18 strikeouts, a .430 on-base percentage and a .950 OPS through 22 games.
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Fourteen of those games came at shortstop, and he played center in the other eight.
